Definition of Legitimate

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Legitimate

Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.

Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.

Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.

Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.

Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.

To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.

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Legitimate Quotations

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
James Madison

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
Ron Paul

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
Al Capone

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
James Allen

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Legitimate Translations

legitimate in Italian is legittimo, legittimo
legitimate in Latin is legitiums

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